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A measure to create more internships for stu
dents in engineering and computer-related fields
was considered by the Legislature's Revenue Com
mittee Monday.
LB1037, introduced by Sen. Chris Abboud of Ral
ston, would provide tax credits for businesses which
employ students in such internships. A $500 credit
would be awarded for every 1,300 hours of work
done by students in on-the-job training.
In opening testimony, Abboud said the bill was
drafted in response to studies conducted for the
state Department of Economic Development that
showed Nebraska lacking in highly skilled labor.
In addition to providing appropriately trained
labor in high technology fields, Nebraska must
retain a greater percentage of these trained indi
viduals within the state, Abboud said.
A study done by the Nebraska Alumni Association
showed that 61 percent of university engineering
graduates leave the state. Such a statistic supports
the need for LB 1037, he said.
"Hopefully, once these students start working in
Nebraska firms they will remain here upon gradua
tion," he said. "Keeping these highly skilled gradu
ates in Nebraska is essential for the economic devel
opment of the state."
The bill would also provide a valuable link bet
ween classroom theory and practical application of
that theory in the real world, Abboud said.
"And as any instructor will tell you," he said, "this
is the best type of education a student can get."
Ferd Anderson, executive secretary of the Neb
raska Society of Professional Engineers, agreed.
"Cooperation between businesses and the univer
sity is a very beneficial arrangement," he said. UNL's
Engineering College already has one co-op program,
Anderson said, which will not be affected by LB1037.
Finally, Don Aripoli, director of scholarships and
financial aids at UNL, outlined a number of the bill's
benefits.
This bill will induce students to go into high-need,
high-tech industries," he said, "and these are the
kids who will be the leaders in business and in
dustry." -
Additionally, he said, "Students really appreciate
the opportunity to work. They see it as not having a
loan, they see it as making contacts and they see it as
practical experience."
Free health center screening
to test for high blood pressure
By Deb Pedcrson
To help with early detection of high blood pres-.
sure, the University Health Center will give free
screenings in the Nebraska Union 10 am. to 2
p.m. today and Wednesday. j
Dr. Gerald Fleischli, health center director, said
hypertension, which is part of high blood pres
sure, should be detected early because it is treat
able. Left untreated, damages progress with time.
The rate at which damages progress differs from
person to person, he said.
"Folklore says there are symptoms with high
blood pressure," Fleischli said. "That is most often
not true."
Hypertension-related damage occurs in three
target organs: the brain, the heart and the kid
neys. High blood pressure speeds up the process of
hardening of the arteries, Felischli said. This
increases chances of a person's blood supply get
ting cut off, he said, which can lead to a stroke or
' heart attack.
The kidneys play a key role in controlling blood
pressure, Fleischli said.
"It's like a kink in a garden hose," he said.
Because an artery clot causes a drop in blood
- pressure near the kidneys, the kidneys "think" the
blood pressure needs to be increased. The kid
neys send out a hormone to increase the body's
blood pressure, Fleischli said.
This starts a rapidly progressing feedback pro
. cess that can lead to a hypertensive crisis, he said. .
The crisis is a medical emergency, he said.
"At one time it was said of all the cases of
hypertension only one-third of the people knew
they had it," Fleischli said. "Of this one-third, only
one-third were treated for it. And of the one-third
who .were treated, only one-third were treated
, accurately."
These statistics recently have improved to
about one-half, Fleischli 'said.
Treatment includes a low sodium diet with
weight control, he said. Also, people with hyper
tension must begin aerobic exercise with stress!
reduction, he said.
There are two parts to a blood pressure read
ing, Fleischli said. One, the systolic reading mea
sures when blood vessels expand. The other, the;
diastolic reading measures when blood vessels:
constrict. For a good reading, the systolic should
register below 140 and the diastolic below 90, or
14090, Fleishli said.
Other factors, are taken into account with the
reading, Fleischli said. '
If the people smoke, take birth control pills, are
overweight or don't exercise, blood pressure
readings could change, he said.
"The screenings are not definitive," Fleischli
said. "We never use a single reading. A series of
readings are needed to verify the condition."
ASUN candidates field questions
By Gecre Phillips
Representatives from four ASUN parties dis
cussed ASUN's role in the university and the goals of
their respective parties in a debate Sunday night at
the East Union.
Aim was represented by Mark Scudder and Curt
Oltmans; Unite by Michael Geiger and Heidi Burk
lund; US by Kevin Goldstein and Julie Musburger,
presidential and first vice-presidential candidates,
respectively.
Michael Cassling, first vice-presidential candi
date, represented the Fashin party.
Panel member and president of the Afrikan Peo
ples Union, Elizabeth Burden asked the parties to
give the overall role of ASUN to UNL
Geiger said ASUN needs to go out to students for
input and lobby for students.
Burklund said Unite would attend meetings of
' different groups.
Goldstein said ASUN needs to do more than
represent. It should be a service-oriented group and
source of information.
Leadership and contact with other groups on
campus should be emphasized, Scudder said.
Cassling said student motivation should be ad
dressed by putting issues in the Daily Nebraskan
and having students vote on them.
Matt Wallace, president of ASUN, asked the par
ties to give two or three main goals they would like to
achieve with ASUN.
Scudder said he would like to improve UNL's
representation in the Legislature. NSSA needs to
Jobbyon specific issues that affect UNL. He also said
the building of the Performing Arts Center and the
consolidation of the University Bookstore are import
ant. Cassling said using the Daily Nebraskan to tell
what ASUN does would improve representation.
Geiger said using students at large to free sena
tors from committee work would allow ASUN to get
put to other organizations. Greater senator familiar
ity with the Legislature was also important.
Meusburger said the typing center, renter's union,
and biweekly update sheets were important to serve
students.
Cassling said he also represented the views of the
Don Ho party, which had to attend important meet
ings in Hawaii
Vol. 83 No. 109
Damian LefJIerDally Nebraskan
Computer grades,
analyzes enams
Students may think the most difficult part of an
exam is answering the questions, but instructors
also may sweat when preparing the exams.
A computerized test analysis system in Seaton
Hall can help instructors decide which questions to
use on a future test, which to eliminate and which to
revise, said Delivee Wright, director of the Teaching
and Learning Center.
The test analysis system also interprets the com
puterized instructor evaluations that students com
plete at each' semester's end.
"We put a lot of time and effort into (the system),
and we hope it helps both the professors and the
students taking the test," Wright said.
. Wright said the Teaching and Learning Center
has offered test analysis services in the past, but
because of obsolete equipment they changed to the
new system. She said the new program combines the
three or four analysis alternatives given to the
instructors in the past.
The system costs about $30,000, Wright said.
Wright said the computer can describe the test
results in many ways for instructors. Students'
scores can be arranged alphabetically in a grade
book, posted by student identification number, or
both.
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